These three aspects of feminine civilization cannot be permanently separated but there is usually one aspect which is the most attractive (Zukra) to the native. Feel free to develop all three according to your tastes!

The 20-year puja should be understood not as idolatry of some external deity.

Rather it is a practice of acknowledgment and deepening of one's own internal quest for knowledge, pleasure, storage, balance, satisfaction, and union with Other.

Typically they avow
(Zukra covenant) intent to act with fairness, justice, equal-share of work,
cooperation, parity. These ladies make promises,
contracts, trusts, deals, bargains, vows. Naturaally, having made an
agreement, one trusts that this
person is capable of upholding the terms of agreement. Yet circumstances
evolve and it becomes clear that they cannot fulfill the promise.

When
this happens, there is no need to over-react. The root cause is that the lady
has low self-esteem. She does not value herself. At the basis of her
inability to act with mutual fairness is her low self-valuation. The
culprits may also be masculine-figures who are in a negotiating role, agreeing
on a settlement, or doing other balancing work.

The nichha-agent can be any gender who is expected to fulfill an agreement
but who
does not meet reasonable equity expectations. In extreme cases (such as
amplification via Rahu) there can be outright fraud. But normally the
problem is a character weakness on the part of the agent. They did intend to
act justly, but were unable to carry through their promise due to low
self-esteem.

There is no need to be
overly suspicious of women or other Zukra-karaka agents. However, it is
sensible during any period of nichha-Zukra to not naively over-invest in outcomes
involving women, contracts, or fair conditions.

During the preceding Ketu mahadasha, the attention was focused on distantly visible, external objects (Rahu) which falsely promised the fulfillment of permanent union but which in fact were consistently evasive and disconnected throughout the Ketu era.

Now, Ketu's relentless 7-year narrative of wandering and disconnection is beginning to fade from consciousness. It is time to allow the past to become the past.

Similarly, incoming drishti to Zukra influences the outcomes of the
swabhukti.

If Zukra rules the nakshatra of the radical lagna, or the
Nakshatra of
Chandra, or if Zukra is lagnesha or Zukra rules Chandra's
rashi, the swabhukti may elicit the physical or emotional values of those
placements.

In a year or so when dasha sandhi is completed, you will start to feel quite differently. Ketu's narrative of unfulfilled yearning for union with Rahu-Other will subside, and
Zukra's sensual materialism and social grace will arise. Give yourself permission to relax without demanding material results while you complete the dasha sandhi.

Others begin to look less like Ketu's intensely desired but utterly unobtainable partner Rahu, and more like mirrors of the Self as are human partners in the realm of
Zukra the Sweet.

But during the first two years of Zukra Mahadasha, the dasha sandhi is still in effect and there is no trustworthy evidence of this impending change. It would be easy to become disheartened if no improvement is seen in the first two years.

However,
Zukra forecasts materialization of the instinct to partner. The emptiness of Ketu, the apathy and dissolution of endless longing, will soon recede into memory.

Now Ketu's dissolving delusions have withdrawn into the background and material-plane human partnership (Zukra) becomes viable. It is time to abandon Ketu's deeply familiar routine of wandering from one delusory attachment to the next, sodden with apathy and exhausted by endless grief.

If one is not yet married, the Zukra-Zukra swabhukti is a very auspicious time to declare the marriage vow.

Zukra-Zukra period endures for 3 years 5 months but it is not at all monolithic in nature.

Because Zukra Mahadasha's bhukti periods are very long-lasting, detailed predictions should be based on the pratyanatardasha = tertiary periods.

For example,

during Zukra-Zukra-Guru period, Guru's significations will be distinctively strong and Guru defines a period of several months duration.

by extreme contrast, during Surya mahadasha, the quite short Surya-Surya-Guru era = so short that Professor Guru 's influence will not be felt too much unless simultaneously there would be a very strong Guru transit or some other reinforcement.

All of the general karaka behaviors of
Zukra are to be expected. Strongly featured are: contractual relationships, bargaining and negotiations, architectural and social arrangements, decoration and design, yoga and balance, graciousness and harmony, marriage-type avowed partnerships and unions, sensual pleasure and luxury, accumulation of material values, and women in every aspect of life such as sister, aunt, female co-worker, female teachers, boss etc. (except the mother, who is Chandra) .

Should
Zukra have additional strengths such as yogakaraka, atmakaraka, lagnesha, lord of Swamsha, lord of Chandra's navamsha, lord of the nakshatra of the radical lagna or lord of the Nakshatra of
Chandra, lord of the 10th navamsha (career) and other strengths.

During the Zukra Mahadasha one wants to be in harmonious and mutually appreciative relationship.

Zukra wants to feel luxuriant and financially privileged, in
harmonious agreement, a maker of trusts, contracts and alliances, a trader and collector of beautiful things.

Professor Bright
Bhrigu = kalatra-karaka. If marriage is desired, and there occurs a suitable transit of Rahu-Ketu to one of the required axes of the nativity,
Zukra swabhukti being the advent of a new life era focused upon partnership, may signal the timing of ceremonial marriage.

POTUS-pair-06 1775-1852Louisa Johnson AdamsBudha-yuti-Ketu +
Surya-yuti-Zukra.
Her husbandPOTUS-06 American System
John Quincy Adams
won the 1824 presidential election during Zukra-Zukra swabhukti. Zukra
rules 5-elections. Mrs. Adams' duties included formal entertaining and
general hospitality to all of his political supporters. Yet, instead of
reinforcing his social network, she was beset by illness and a severe melancholia (depression
Ketu + Zukra rules 12 withdrawal). She felt so
withdrawn and apathetic toward her social obligations that her husband complained bitterly in his journals. In the end, her husband's mother
POTUS-pair-02 Letters 1744-1818Abigail Adams (herself a former president's wife) came to manage the staff and run the parties. Louisa simply could not do it.

POTUS-33 Trial and Hope 1884-1972
Harry Truman completed his presidential duties in Zukra-Zukra swabhukti, and
thus ended his public career, in 1952. After seven years of crucial
service to the nation in the roles of USA President and Commander in
Chief, Truman returned to private life. Zukra rules 1-identity and
8-obscurity; in addition, Truman has Thula-Chandra so that Zukra does
the same job from the Chandra lagna. Shani-8 initially triggered a state
of penury. By age 69, Truman was nearly impoverished. In 1952, there was no provision for pensioning of former presidents. It had never been necessary in 175 years since the founding of USA, because all previous
POTUS had been landowners, businessmen, earned from their memoirs (Grant) or had died on the job. Truman and his wife Bess lived in near-poverty for several years until
Zukra-Surya period, Surya rules 11-income. At that point, an embarrassed USA Congress established a pension fund
(11) for ex-presidents, and Truman then earned a retirement income until
his death age 88 during Surya-Rahu period.

Any Zukra period during any mahadasha is a common and beneficial time to
join the partner in a marriage contract, provided that
samchara Rau-Ketu are transiting a key lagna.

Any
Zukra period during any
mahadasha is a common and beneficial time to join
the partner in a marriage contract. Zukra signifies marriage alliance,
equity, fairness, balance, and harmonious agreement.

The
marriage-making signification of the Zukra-Zukra
swabhukti is exceptionally strong. Because the
harmony-seeking, trust-expecting swabhukti of Zukra endures for
three years, even nativities with challenging marriage
configurations may be able to secure a marriage within
the Zukra-Zukra swabhukti.

When the avowal of the holy estate of matrimony during any period of
Zukra, the bhava ruled by Zukra may indicate special attributes of the
spouse. Also, there is some tendency for expression of the essential
qualities of Zukra within the characteristics of the mate, such as a general
equanimity, agreeability, and attention to the material benefits of the
marital estate.

England-King 1491-1547 Henry VIII Tudor
on 11-June-1509 celebrated this first marriage (his age 18) to Catalina de Aragon. Catherine of Aragon
was the widow of his elder brother. She was 5 years elder to Henry, and the
union endured for 24 years. *
Zukra-Zukra
swabhukti * Zukra-yuti-Ketu
suggests that Catherine could be the first of many unsatisfactory wives.

Gitanjali 1861-1941Rabindranath Tagore-
married Mrinalini
Devi in 1883 (his age 22, her age 10)* Zukra-Zukra
swabhukti

USA-Congress 1943-Newt Gingrich on 18-June-1962
which was the day after his 19th birthday, Mr.
Gingrich married his high-school geometry teacher.
Typical of his Karkata lagna, his bride was seven
years elder.
Samchara Rahu-Ketu via Karkata-Makara.

Any
Surya period during any
mahadasha may support ceremonial marriage, if
Surya
rules either the swamsha
or the navamsha-7 AND there occurs a suitable transit of Rahu-Ketu
contacting one of the primary axes of the nativity.

Marriage during a Surya period may signify a
uniquely creative, regal, politically or theatrically
intelligent mate, gifted in social entertaining and
community linkage, who is frequently one-half of a
political couple.

Miracle Roses 1207-1231 St.
Elizabeth of Hungary married Louis IV, Landgrave of
Thuringia, in the year 1221 when she turned age-14. Surya rules 7th
navamsha, and her husband was a king.

An era of amplified feelings for home and homeland.
One may seek residence near the ocean shores, or
shipbound. Retreat to safety and a secure routine.

Chandra is the garha-karaka for household
life. Promoting the experience of familiar, rhythmic,
routines and sheltered security Professor Chandra nearly
always maintains some degree of comfort. Yet the outcome
depends significantly upon the angle between chidra-karaka
Ketu agent of surrender to impermanence and
matrikaraka Chandra agent of ancestral deep roots. However any angle may produce heightened feelings of patriotism, self-defense, attachment to parents, love of the land, need for comfortable rhythms and routines, need for security.

Any nativity may expect an increase in the
experiences associated with Chandra such as deeper
emotional sensitivity, engagement with matters of
security and stability, cultural tap-roots, foundational
education, patriotism, defense of national-ethnic
boundaries and fenced lands, as well as matters of the
mother and her folk.

The specific outcome of any Chandra period depends
upon the bhava rulerships held by Chandra as measured from
both the radical lagna and the Chandra-lagna.

Outcomes are also affected
by drishti entering Chandra, by the role of
Chandra's planetary ruler, and very importantly by the bhava in which
Chandra resides. Chandra is so sensitive
psycho-emotionally that Chandra bhukti outcomes are
also particularly influenced by
transits of
Rahu-Ketu or
transits of Shani.

In Ketu-Chandra period, Chandra seeks shelter from sudden changes and insecurity along the pilgrim's
wandering path.

A time of quiet retreat, ideally near the ocean. Emotional relationships are psychically sensitive and care-taking. Emphasis on domestic routines, food and nurturing, caring for and serving others, staying close to home.

Typical relationship between Chandra and Zukra

Although
Professor Chandra has no enemies, Zukra is adversarial toward Chandra.
Zukra favors partnership, pairing, parity, and equal participation whilst
Somana is parental, caretaking, protective and nourishing but not equal as a parent or schoolteacher is surely not the equal of the child.

Naturally Chandra's bhava determines the manifestation of this bhukti, but overall the arrival of a significant mother-teacher figure and cool, watery, coastal and agricultural locations are featured.

There may be some disjunction between cool blue
Zukra's mandate for equity in partnership versus parental
Somana's need to control the emotional flow of relationships and in general to maintain high feeling sensitivity with a tendency to emotionalize all experiences.

Golf champion
Tiger Woods :
During Zukra-Chandra period, Tiger's
father-coach left his terrestrial body. His father's fleshdeath, as the ensuing scandal revealed, created
permission for Mr. Woods to achieve an emotionally fueled level of self-indulgent sensuality.
. The indulgent inclinations were already present via nichha-Chandra-yuti-Zukra -3
receiving parivartamsha
of Mangala-9 father. Zukra-Chandra bhukti released a torrent of sensual entitlement
which took a scandalous twist due mainly to the nichha-Chandra and its
need for comfort in occult, confidential, or forbidden circumstances..

When Chandra rules the
7th or
10th radical bhava or10th navamsha
or the emotionally motivated, social-ordering, leadership-seeking; 10th-from-Chandra, Professor Para carries the potential to
elevate the native into socially recognized
positions of career
authority and responsibilities. Promotion and obtainment
of professional portfolio may be expected.

Professor
Somana carries the potential to
elevate the native into socially recognized
positions of leadership duty associated with
parenting, schoolteaching, security and police protection ,
farming and fishing, housing and real estate,
vehicles and transportation (especially the safety
aspects) ritualists and routine-makers,
patriotism , and all
matters of nourishing and sustaining the
place of settlement .

Particularly for Chandra karmapathi Thula lagna
and also for
Makara lagna where Chandra rules
10th-from-10th, appointment to a higher position of social leadership can be expected to raise the social reputation and increase public regard.

Any
Chandra period during any
mahadasha may signal the timing of ceremonial
wedding * formalization of alliance, if Professor
Chandra
rules either the swamsha
or the navamsha-7 AND there occurs a suitable transit of Rahu-Ketu
contacting one of the required axes of the nativity.

During Zukra-Chandra period, where Chandra rules bhava-2
and Chandra yuti Guru maraka rules-7, author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings 1892-1973J.R.R. Tolkien left his terrestrial body at the age of 82

Zukra and Mangala are neutral toward each other.
Zukra favors partnership, pairing, parity, and equal participation on the sensual, wealth-building material level whilst Mangala is sexual, active, pursuing, and athletic. These two sets of behaviors are compatible within marriage and also within many types of business partnership.

Naturally Mangala's bhava determines the manifestation of this bhukti, but overall the arrival of a significant competitor, high-energy, athletic or warrior-figure and hot, arid locations are featured. The emphasis is on muscular movement, sexual activity, or sport.

There may be some disjunction between cool blue
Zukra's mandate for equity in partnership versus hot, blood-red competitive, sometimes dominating Mangala's drive to engage in continuous activity.
Zukra tends to prefer a pattern of accumulating and appreciating sensual pleasures whereas Mangala is single-mindedly moving always in pursuit of some physical goal.

A life narrative wherein Mangala-Mesha starts
a Big Fight during Mangala bhukti:

During his Zukra-Mangala period (age 57,
R-K return) de Mundi Systemate 1642-1726Isaac Newton launched a bitter attack against his adversary Gottlieb Leibniz
regarding
who
indeed had invented the calculus. Friends of both scholars had asked them to stop this long-lasting diatribe, but Newton apparently could not stop
heckling Leibniz. The accusations (6) sullied the dignity-honor of both parties, and left the intellectual legacy of Leibniz in permanent disrepute.
6th-from-Chandra = bhava-10 Vrizchika (reputation) with Mangala-Mesha
furthermore in 6th-from-10th (bhava-3
writing) suggesting that
matters of public reputation and respect were
especially contentious and even vicious for
Newton. As a gay man was constantly heckled by
his adversaries especially his mother's
husbands, Newton was apparently very sensitive
on the point.

When Mangala rules the
7th or
10th radical bhava or10th navamsha
or the emotionally motivated, social-ordering, leadership-seeking; 10th-from-Chandra, Professor Kuja carries the potential to
elevate the native into socially recognized
positions of career
authority and responsibilities. Promotion and obtainment
of professional portfolio may be expected.

Any
Mangala period during any
mahadasha may support ceremonial marriage, if
Kuja
rules either the swamsha
or the navamsha-7 AND there occurs a suitable transit of Rahu-Ketu
contacting one of the required axes of the nativity. Mangala-timed marriage
especially indicates the qualities of
Angarika in the marital
union, including a physically able, athletic, champion, competitive,
exploratory, innovative,
dynamically energetic, or warlike mate.

Zukra prefers a state of luxurious wealth, guaranteed via legal terms of agreement

Zukra = a maker of contracts and alliances , a trader and collector of beautiful things.

Zukra-Rahu period introduce
Rahu-type agents (usually partners in business or marriage) who promise gracious lifestyles involving a
balance of opposites and equal contributions to the
fund of shared wealth.

One may indeed self-elevate into the higher rank and its privileges while in company of the Rahu agent(s).

However toward the end of the Zukra-Rahu bhukti it may become more obvious that most of the Rahu agent's claims are mimicking one's own sensually indulgent and acquisitive nature.

Grateful Dead 1942-1995Jerry Garcia
1975-1985 marked a period of sexual profligacy, and rampant heroin and other
drug use, along with unmanaged diabetes (Zukra sugars). The phase
of intense indulgencge came to a close during Ketu chidradasha * Zukra-Rahu until Zukra-Ketu

Rahu is agreeable during Zukra Mahadasha but His actions are often exotic, irregular or fraudulent in regard to contracts, vows, trusts, promises, deals and agreements.

Events related to Rahu's location by bhava, or related to Rahu's
ruler

Any
Rahu period during any
mahadasha may support ceremonial marriage, if
a suitable transit of Rahu-Ketu
contacting one of the required axes of the nativity.

Rahu-timed marriage show Rahu-the-Mixmaster at
work. Rahu-timed marriage suggests an impulsive but
goal-oriented alliance. The partner hails
from a fascinatingly different set of cultural
roots, a different social class or race, or a
different religion; these differences facilitate
Rahu's over-reaching ascent and are perceived as
irresistible and exciting.

Professor Rahu
sees a mesmerizing opportunity
for expediently reaching His goals, and He acts
decisively without delay. There is relatively little
time invested in preparation for the ceremony and
there may be only partial agreement of the families.

So long as the partners continue to reach their
respective goals through agency of the union, Rahu-timed
marriages may endure. Longevity
of the marriage depends upon the marriage profile
elements in both nativities, particularly the
7th-from-Chandra.

Shri Rahu is a a natural maraka agent. His periods are empowered with
Permission to cross shadowy boundaries,
and the line between incarnate vs. disincarnate is just such a boundary.
Therefore Rahu needs no further justification via His ruler in order to
effect a Release.

Rahu can also produce the
maraka effects of His ruler, or of graha yuti Rahu. When Rahu is ruled by OR
yuti the ruler of bhava-2 or ruler of bhava-7, Rahu obtains enhanced marana-karaka status,
because. Professor Rahu becomes empowered to teach upon the subject of saturation (2) and balanced completion of the contract (7).

Professor Rahuva can occasionally gain so much
strength by association with a very strong ruler or
co-tenant that by His own power He can "push the
envelope" and move the native to their next step
out-of-body.

"It has been my experience over nearly sixty years that Rahu as sub-lord, whether in his own period or in the period of other planets, would always create problems of a serious nature, affecting family and personal matters, which would Test the mental and physical stamina of an individual whatever be his social, educational, or financial attainments.

It is also found, contrary to general belief, that planets like the Sun and Mercury, occupying Rahu's constellations are capable of conferring happy results financially and career-wise but would create situations in domestic life, which could shatter a person's self-confidence and make him experience results which he would ordinarily never expect to happen.

By contrast, Guru is philosophical not sensual, accumulates wisdom not material goods, and Guru favors the one-to-many relationship of teacher-to-students, not a one-to-one like
Zukra's marriage or advising pairs.

These two sets of behaviors are largely incompatible within marriage and also within many types of business partnership. Guru does not have an equal partner and He is not much interested in material reality, being rather a philosopher savant.

Naturally Guru's bhava determines the manifestation of this bhukti. Overall, Guru periods signify the arrival of a significant teacher-preacher figure
within wise, sacred locations. The locations are often
determined by the residential bhava of Guru. For example
Guru-12 location would be meditative or imaginative or
distant world, whereas Guru-9 would be a classic
university setting but Guru-4 would be a local
settlement and Guru-3 likely a commercial business.

Events related
to rulership and karaka-signification

Brihaspati's curricular emphasis is
typically placed upon the development of wisdom and expressions of abundance
and expansion.

Periods of Brihaspati the university-karaka provide likely
time-periods in which to complete a tertiary diploma following many
(Guru) years of study, particularly if Guru is otherwise
associated by rashi or by bhava, and particularly if the
native intends to use their knowledge in order to teach.

USA-Congress 1943-Newt Gingrich earned his Ph.D. in history
in 1971 during Zukra-Guru period * Guru dharmesha-9
university

There may be some disjunction between cool blue Zukra's mandate for equity in partnership versus warm, golden Guru's procreative abundance. Often there is some conflict between the sensuality of marriage versus the children's demand for wise attention.

Guru bhukti of any mahadasha are
naturally abundant
periods which tend to produce children on the basis
of Brihaspati's role as a natural putra-putriki karaka without regard to
bhava rulerships or other rules. Even an otherwise
child-resistant nativity may produce children during
a
Guru Bhukti, so long as
samchara Rahu-Ketu are transiting via a key lagna.

Silly Love Songs 1942- BeatlePaul McCartney
acquired two children in in Zukra-Guru period, putriki-karaka
Brihaspati. Eldest daughter by adoption and bio-daughter, both
during 1969.

When Brihaspati rules the
7th or
10th radical bhava or10th navamsha
or the emotionally motivated, social-ordering, leadership-seeking; 10th-from-Chandra, Professor Guru carries the potential to
elevate the native into socially recognized
positions of leadership duty associated with
governance, regulation, systematization, hierarchies,
and the maintenance of the social order. Promotion and
obtainment of professional portfolio may be expected.

If marriage is desired and Guru rules navamsha 1 or 7, the Zukra-Guru period can bring marriage
especially to a teacher-preacher, priest, professor or world traveler.

Any bhukti of Guru during any Mahadasha is generally favorable for
biological or creative reproduction, so long as Guru and
bhava-5 are reasonably well disposed. Marriage
during Guru bhukti often brings a child very quickly
within the same Guru bhukti.

POTUS-11 Manifest Destiny 1795-1849James Knox Polk * only three
months after finishing his term as POTUS-11, James
Polk died age 53
from cholera during Zukra-Guru period. According to
observers, Anuradha-lagna Polk had no children or
friends, nor interests beyond the duties of
governance which he had assumed age 29 as the
youngest member of Congress. He died suddenly randhresha-8
Budha-1.

Zukra and Shani are excellent friends.
Zukra favors partnership, pairing, parity, and equal participation on the sensual, wealth-building material level while social-order Shani is also materialistic, structured, and much supportive of legal contracts such as marriage which regulate and organize society overall.

These two sets of behaviors are highly compatible within marriage and also within many types of business partnership.

Naturally Shani's bhava determines the manifestation of this bhukti, but overall the arrival of a significant elder, regulator, bureaucrat or holder of traditional authority can be expected (perhaps an entire society of them). Cold, dry, dark, scarcely nourishing locations are featured. The emphasis is on distribution of scarce resources and adherence to the law.

Generally there is a favorable outcome as cool blue
Zukra's mandates equity in partnership while cold icy blue Shani mandates strict observance of the social law.

Zukra tends to prefer a pattern of accumulating and appreciating sensual pleasures whereas Shani is more concerned with physical survival and rigid class structure. Yet the two goals of large-scale group regulation and contractually balanced interpersonal marriages are quite compatible and those who respect both sets of rules usually receive social approval.

When Shani rules the
7th or
10th radical bhava or10th navamsha
or the emotionally motivated, social-ordering, leadership-seeking; 10th-from-Chandra, Professor Shanaicarya carries the potential to
elevate the native into socially recognized
positions of leadership duty associated with
governance, regulation, systematization, hierarchies,
and the maintenance of the social order. Promotion in
rank and obtainment of professional portfolio may be
expected.

Any
Shani bhukti during any
mahadasha may signal the timing of ceremonial
wedding * formalization of alliance, if Shani
rules either the swamsha
or the navamsha-7 AND there occurs a suitable transit of Rahu-Ketu
to one of the required axes of the nativity.

Weddings matched to a jarana-karaka Shani
bhukti especially
indicate an elder, more experienced, or more senior mate.
Shani durosha-karaka also suggests a sober and
socially responsible person characterized by longevity
and endurance. Thirdly, Shani-timed weddings may indicate consequential
obligation following the birth of a
child. Shani niyama-karaka indicates
that Shani-timed weddings (in any mahadasha) may be the
consequence less of affection and more of social rules.
The spouses may be marrying as an expression of social
duty or in conformance with the expectations of others.
Shani-timed events often carry the weight of pressing material-social
obligations.

My follow-up question: How soon can I expect to feel better physically
and mentally? As you know, I have a
Simha radical lagna birth chart with Swati
Moon in bhava-3. You said I'm in a Shani bhukti. Ouch! Everything
hurts! Plus I worry constantly, and that alone is exhausting.

Thanks for your reply.

Namaste,

The
Vimshottari Dasha timeline for your nativity shows that you are currently
enduring a three-years-two-months Shani bhukti within the 20-year-long Zukra
mahadasha.

Because Shani rules bhava-6 concerning
imbalances and ailments (and you have graha located in 6 but not in 7), most occurrences of Shani bhukti periods can be
expected to match 3rd-dimensional (real physical life) reality experience of
ailment, accusations, animosities, disorder, persistently imbalanced conditions, and other aggrieved
conditions.

The current Shani bhukti runs from 2015 until 2018.... There
are nine mahadasha periods; some are short and some are long. The longer the
mahadasha, the longer is each bhukti section of the mahadasha. It just so
happens that Zukra controls the longest mahadasha (for you, from age 39
until age 59) and therefore the specific sub-section (bhukti) of the Zukra
mahadasha that is controlled by the Shani Narrative is also extra-long (3
years 3 months).

Luckily you are older than 36 (the age of
Shani's maturity), therefore you have
the stamina and maturity to not only survive the restrictions,
constant worrying about scarcity, and often the
tediousness of a Shani mahadasha, but those older than 36 can often thrive
during the otherwise oppressive Shani-narrative conditions. Just knowing
that the English word 'worry' means 'to strangle' can lead an older person
to chuckle with wisdom, realizing that one can by succumbing to negative
thought patterns indeed strangle oneself!

Shani
rewards sobriety, realism, neutrality, and social duty. However He generally
will not reward (and may apply strict measures to) any of the narratives of
Surya which can include individual intelligence, creativity, drama,
amusements, and celebrity.

The older people become, the more they can
appreciate the value of discipline and orderliness; therefore the easier
(relatively) the reoccurring Shani bhukti periods tend to be.

Nevertheless, Shani's bhava rulership for the Simha nativity (yours) is
extra demanding, since Shani rules not only the heavily dutiful partnership
bhava-7 but also the adversarial and remedy-seeking bhava-6.

Optimal
health is likely to suffer and this likely places a strain on relationships,
and although there is usually no worry about long-term relationship
endurance, shorter-term relationships may be challenging to sustain.

Typically, the causes of the ailments are not easily seen; yet once the
cause is unveiled the Shani-type symptoms begin to recede (slowly of course
-- this is Shani the Delayer at work).

The causes according to Jyotisha
would be Shani-ish: various old resentments,
betrayals, and other sources of bitterness (Shani is bitter) which
overwhelm the healthy flexibility of life, inducing stiffness and
brittleness, while a narrative of blame and frustration tends to circulate
in the mental patterns.

The more compassionately one is able to locate
and honor the old resentments, and the
more complete one's acceptance of earlier deprivations as
useful (if painful) learning experience,
the gentler are the symptoms.

The purpose of Shani bhukti periods is to
call one's attention to the intentional reality of limits and structures.
When (if) one is able to re-visit the victim experience with more adult and
neutral eyes, looking for evidence of a learning
experience encapsulated within the suffering of exploitation or mistreatment,
then Shani's narrative will be complete, and the present-time suffering will
generally cease.

Meanwhile, Shani is a yogakaraka graha when
measured from your Chandra-Thula, which suggests that you would not lose
every iota of creativity and fun during Shani bhukti. Rather, via knowing
your own healing rhythms (Chandra) you would find quieter habits and
routines to accommodate the pinching limits of
Shani while more restrained creative, intellectual development could
continue.

The current Shani bhukti is approximately 2/3 completed,
with 1/3 left to go. Since gochara (transiting) Shani is presently traveling
via bhava-5 (Dhanuzya) related to the heart, and Shani is a planetary enemy
of Surya your lagnesha, and Surya signifies the heart as well, quality
Ayurvedic medical care with an emphasis on heart-health is always
recommended.

Rahu has been transiting across your Simha lagna and He
just now is crossing the end of Magha moving into Azlesa. In about a week
from now, you should start to feel an intense hunger for privacy, for sleep,
for meditation practices and dreamwork, and for living in distant worlds --
much more than normal, due to Rahu triggering a once-every-9-years 6/12 axis
return WHILE Shani ruler of Rahu-6 is the bhukti-pathi.

The physical
body will remain cranky but your psychic life can be expected to light up
from Rahu's visit, which will reveal the
phantom-like imagery of the ancient betrayals (not always from the
current lifetime) that are triggering Shani's ailments.

When you
shift into the Budha bhukti, because Budha rules bhava-3 and you have a
cluster of graha in 3, there should be a gradual lifting of Shani's weight
replaced by a burst of mental activity and engagement with siblings,
neighbors, writing, and messaging.

Until then, Shani rewards patience
and steady compassion for one's own
(self-chosen) limitations.

In addition to the meditation and
dreamwork clairsentient guidance activated by Rahu's 18-month-long visit to
bhava-12, if you are interested in psychotherapy, that modality is also
activated by the Rahu transit via bhava-12.

Psychotherapy does not have magical powers, but
it can be a valuable tool for asking more
targeted questions about the duty-buried grievances which motivate the
Shani-ailments, and getting more insightful answers.

The purpose
of every bhukti is to produce a pattern of experiences which develop self-knowledge.
The intention during periods of Shani is not to "release" grievances but
rather to accept and honor
the learning experiences provided by theconflicts and
mistreatments of yore. Shani is too rigid and stodgy to allow a
smooth release. He resists change. However, He does reward realism,
acceptance of what-is, maturity and patience.

Wishing you every happiness, healing from sorrow, guidance by inner
light, and success in all of life's endeavors,

These two sets of behaviors are nicely compatible within marriage and also within many types of business partnership.

Naturally Budha's bhava determines the manifestation of this bhukti, but overall the arrival of a significant sibling, young person, student, report-writer, or media-messenger can be expected. Green, somewhat dry, quick-changing, commercial, youth-oriented locations are featured. The emphasis is on information transaction, planning, schedules, and discussions.

Budha can be a karaka for tasks related to
studying, reading, writing, explaining, describing, instructing, playing an
instrument, drawing, diagraming, handling, and counting.

Budha does
planning, scheduling, documenting, reporting, announcing, messaging, and
ticketing. Budha can represent curiosity, handcraft, adolescents, younger
siblings, and young people in general. Also Budha is a general karaka for
business, sales, marketing, advertising, and transactions.

As the karaka
for passing examinations, receiving licenses, and earning
diplomas or certificates at the successful
conclusion of a course of study, Budha often
grants school graduation.

When Budha rules the
7th or
10th radical bhava or10th navamsha
or the emotionally motivated, social-ordering, leadership-seeking; 10th-from-Chandra, Professor Para carries the potential to
elevate the native into socially recognized
positions of career
authority and responsibilities. Promotion and obtainment
of professional portfolio may be expected.

Any
Budha period during any
mahadasha may support ceremonial marriage, if Budha
rules either the swamsha
or the navamsha-7 AND there occurs a suitable transit of Rahu-Ketu
to one of the required axes of the nativity.

When Professor
Budha rules maraka-2 or Budha rules
maraka-7, the Kumara * communicator * becomes a potential marana-karaka who gives teachings upon the subject of saturation (2) and balanced completion of the contract (7).

Generally, Vimshottari periods of Professor Ketu are
scheduled for the purpose of release and
forgiveness.
The substance, idea, person, relationship, entity, or
social role that is surrendered during the Ketu period
is by definition spiritually unnecessary. It has
outlived its usefulness and it has lost its vitality Maintaining
this enervated phenomenon (whatever it is) is costing too much
energy within the life system. Thus it is scheduled for
release at the appointed time.

Examples of things to be released include experiences
from other lives which have expired in their relevance
to the current life, outdated relationships that no
longer match the authentic life-force energy of the
native, parts of the body that may be holding genetic
memories that are scheduled for release (hair, teeth,
appendix, sometimes other limbs or organs) and other
similar scenarios.

Professor Ketu is Rahu's
dried and lifeless tail which flutters in the ethers
like a flag in the wind. Therefore Ketu periods are
often associated with the cutting-off of some
desiccated appendage. Along with
Professor Mangala, Ketu is the co-ruler of
transformative randhra-bhava-8. After releasing the
unnecessary form, one often begins a path toward
rejuvenation.

Cut-cut-cut * release, unbind * divide, split,
scathe

In the special case of Zukra Mahadasha final period of Ketu, the * cutting * emphasis of * chidra-dasha * is doubled by the additional chidra-karaka effects of Ketu the Abandoner.

Handsome, athletic, educated, financially privileged Superman 1952-2004 tetraplegiaChristopher Reeve endured the unbearably tragic loss of muscle control caused by a terrible horse accident. Hitting a divider-fence at just the right angle with just the right force severed (Ketu) his spinal cord. Zukra-Ketu period.

chidrakarakaKetu may signal
surrender, dispersal, walking away,
abandonment of a responsibility or a relationship.

POTUS-31 Challenge to Liberty 1874-1964Herbert Hoover
Less than eight months after he became POTUS-31 in March-1929 (during
his Zukra-Budha period), Hoover experienced Black Tuesday
terrible stock market crash of October 1929 during
Zukra-Ketu. Historians opine that had
there been early intervention, the terrible suffering of the Great
Depression might have been averted or at least reduced.
During his Zukra mahadasha, Hoover was a busy man. He had built a
splendid reputation as a capable manager of virtually every aspect of
national government. Yet he had arrived in the most
exhausted of all Ketu periods -- the
chidradasha of Zukra mahadasha. Under the guise of
laissez-faire principle, Hoover DID NOTHING.

However Ketu is also a powerful spiritualizing agent.

Despite the presence of partners and potential partners, considerable difficulty experienced in making a successful connection. Apathy and ennui on the part of the native. A feeling of lost cause, unworkable, mismatch. Yet Professor Ketu instills a subtext of need to connect to that exciting Rahu-persona who is in the environment.

Ketu is not desired by Rahu.
Feelings of emptiness and rejection.

Before fully
realizing that the Desired One no longer matches the
authentic spiritual body, Ketu periods may produce a
vain hope for connection
with an unavailable or inappropriate person, social
role, idea, or object. Before the realization of the
need to release the attachment, even knowing that the
desire is lifeless, one may experience the illusion of connection
which dissipates into fantasy, numbness, or distraction. Desires
are dispersed into "echo" awareness that one is not desired
by the object of affection. This is merely an echo of
one's own higher consciousness signaling that
this Object is no longer suitably
connected to oneself * although in other lives
and other realities the Object may have been a vital
companion.

The barest vestige of a faded
connection

Professor Ketu often induces a feeling of
attempted reconnection with a person, place, thing, or idea that was significant in a previous life or in a distant phase of the present life. However, the attachment is
vestigial, no longer part of
the vital script of the true present identity. Thus,
connection is often unsustainable for reasons of spirit.
The reasons of spirit often have more tangible echoes in
reasons of social class attributes, reasons of knowledge
lineage, reasons of ethnicity or race, reasons of
doctrine, and other formal rationale. However the
definitive reason for the "non-connection" experience of
Ketu is that one sees the object of attachment in a
distant mirror, as a mere reflection of an already
completed script. The object, for its part, will
generally not allow the native to make more than a
temporary and superficial connection to itself.

Professor Ketu often induces a feeling feeling of attempted reconnection with a person, place, thing, or idea that was significant in a previous life or in a distant phase of the present life. However, the attachment is vestigial, no longer part of the vital script of the true present identity. Thus, connection is often unsustainable.

The material-social relationship may survive in skeleton form, while the spiritually conscious intent retreats into the nebulous status of dissociation from social-validation seeking ego-membrane.

Since both
Zukra and Ketu are enemies of Surya who is karaka for ego-based identity, the usual outcome of Zukra-Ketu is retreat - at a material level *or* at a psycho-spiritual level -- from the ego-based identity that was maintained during the previous 18 years.

The spirit is no longer concerned with that portion of the Self definition which contained the socially legitimating tag "I am the partner of _________." One may heed the call of wandering winds. Life's "next step" may seem a bit foggy.

However if the subsequent mahadasha pati Surya is strong, recovery from the listlessness of vaporous Ketu may be very quick.

The purpose of marriage is normally to establish a
permanent and fruitful bond of mutual trust. Therefore
marriage avowal during Ketu periods is rare and unusual.
A marriage ceremony performed during Ketu bhukti may
remain unconsummated. The spouse, or possibly the
native, disappears either
literally or figuratively; or the behavior of the spouse
is exceptionally eccentric. Much depends on Ketu's ruler
and upon any graha which may share a rashi with
Professor Ketu.

At the age of 17, Mad Monk 1869-1916 Romanov
Grigori Rasputin
was married according to the rituals of his
non-literate agricultural village culture during Zukra-Ketu period
while
samchara Rahu-Ketu
via Simha-Kumbha contact navamsha R-K. Rasputin's
marriage featured Ketu-style open
boundaries. While he always returned to his
peasant home to contribute his labor for the
collective harvest, and he gave his wife numerous
children on this pattern, Rasputin was a lifelong
highly promiscuous wanderer who stayed in
monasteries and in the homes of others while he
conducted popular ecstatic piety cults (Ketu
out-of-body). Although socially irregular, his
activities brought wealth to his village and
Rasputin never divorced.

When
Professor Ketu is ruled by a graha which itself rules bhava-2 or bhava-7, Professor Ketu becomes a potential marana-karaka who gives teachings upon the subject of saturation (2) and balanced completion of the contract (7).

Therefore Ketu periods always carry the potential
to scatter the material-world forms.
Those left behind may perceive Ketu's molecular dispersal as a physical death.
However folks who exit during this Zukra-Ketu period
are typically aware of the dissolution of form in
context of persistence of spirit.